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Histoire générale de l'Asie, de l'Afrique et de l'Amérique, : contenant des discours sur l'histoire ancienne des peuples de ces contrées, leur histoire moderne & la description des lieux, avec des remarques sur leur histoire naturelle, & des observations sur les religions, les gouvernemens, les sciences, les arts, le commerce, les coutumes, les mœurs, les caractères, &c. des nations.

by: Roubaud, Pierre-Joseph-André, 1730-1791

Publication date: 1770

Topics: Geography, Religion, America -- History, Asia -- History, Africa -- History, Imprint 1770, Imprint 1775

Publisher: A Paris, : Chez Des Ventes de la Doué, libraire, rue Saint Jacques, vis-à-le [!] Collège de Louis-le-Grand.

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: French

Volume: 5

5 v. : 26 cm. (4to)

Authorship statement and imprint have been corrected on the title pages of v. 3-5

Colophon of v. 5 reads: De l'imprimerie de Cailleau, rue Saint Severin

Vol. 3 dated 1771; v. 4 dated 1772; v. 5 dated 1775

Signatures: v. 1: pi² a-b⁴ A-5Y⁴ 5Z² 6A-6E⁴ 6F² (-6F2); v. 2: pi² A-5H⁴ 5I² (5I² (5I1 mis-signed 6I1); v. 3: pi² A-6H⁴; v. 4: pi1 A-5P⁴ 5Q⁴ (-5Q4); v. 5: pi² A-5X⁴

Each v. has title vignette

Vol. 1: [4], XVI, 958 p.; v. 2: [4], 803, [1] p.; v. 3: [4], 983, [1] p.; v. 4: [2], 862 p.; v. 5: [4], 904 p., [1] folded leaf of plates

Several pages misnumbered

Errata, v. 5, p. 899

Each v. is indexed